New Nanophotonic Waveguides developed at MIT

SimilarityEngine writes "Physicists at MIT have developed a new kind of nanophotonic waveguide, overcoming 'several long-standing obstacles' to move us one step closer to optical computers. Photonics strives to improve on electronics in terms of space requirements, speed and energy consumption - but until recently, it was not possible to perform well in all three areas simultaneously. In their paper, John Joannopoulos et al. demonstrate how to reliably encode a signal as surface plasmons which side-steps such limitations."